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New associate dean appointment

October 1, 2014

VALERIE OOSTERVELD
Valerie Oosterveld

W. Iain Scott is pleased to announce the appointment of professor Valerie Oosterveld as the Associate Dean (Research & Administration) effective July 1, 2014. Oosterveld teaches and publishes widely in the areas of public international law and international criminal law and is the deputy director of Western University’s Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.

She received her LLB at the University of Toronto and earned an LLM and JSD from Columbia University.

Before joining Western Law in July 2005, she served in the Legal Affairs Bureau of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. In this role, she provided legal advice on international criminal accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, especially with respect to the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and other transitional justice mechanisms such as truth and reconciliation commissions.


This article appeared in the Western Law 2014 Alumni Magazine.
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